Monopoly board game (Parker Brothers, 1985)
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This edition of the Monopoly board game is from 1985, and was sold by Parker Brothers in the U.S. It has the logo in the Kabel typeface that has been used since the 1930s. “Parker Brothers Real Estate Trading Game” on the box is set in ITC Korinna. The deed cards use a combination of Copperplate Gothic and Futura. Kabel is also used for the gameboard text. The booklet is set in Palatino.
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The rules pamphlet (©1973) is set in Trump-Mediäval.
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This rules pamphlet is from a later edition (©1994) and is set in Palatino.
7 Comments on “Monopoly board game (Parker Brothers, 1985)”
Any suggestions for the fonts on the Chance and Community Chest cards?
I found Brush Script MT close enough for Community Chest. Looking for something close to the font used in the text/instructions on the C/CC cards.
Thanks!
This one? That would be Mandate and Medium Condensed Gothic. The former was digitized as Freehand 521. For the latter, see Gothic RR.
One of the photos shows the Rules pamphlet (© 1994, Tonka Corporation) using Palatino, and another photo here (© 1973 copyright date, Kenner Parker Toys) shows Trump Mediaeval.
Thanks for pointing this out, Jay. I have added Trump-Mediäval to the typeface credits and added captions to clarify that the booklet in Palatino is from a later edition.
What is the font used for the numbers on the money itself
It depends on the edition. The bank notes shown in the second image of this post have numerals from a contoured slab serif with ball terminals. I don’t know if they’re from an existing typeface (as opposed to being custom drawn) – if they are, I don’t recognize it.
Type makers used to offer figure fonts – also called calendar figures or advertising figures, depending on the intended application. These don’t always correspond to an alphabetic design. I can imagine that bank note numbers are another field where such special figures were used.
Follow-up: one existing typeface that comes pretty close is Farmer’s Rimmed. Its numerals are not a perfect match, though.